With summer upon us and travel plans in the making, wouldn’t it be great if you had a few tricks in your bag for bringing home better digital memories of your trip? In our last post, we covered a few tips for better landscape photography. If you missed our first post on improving your landscape […]

There’s just something about venturing out in nature with the challenge of capturing some of the amazing beauty of creation: waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity, all the while appreciating the moment-by-moment changes in the scenery as sun and clouds trek across the sky. Over the next couple posts, I’ll offer a few photography tips […]

Hi Friends, I was blessed to spend my birthday weekend with good friends doing what I love! (Next best thing to spending it with family…). We headed out to Southwestern Utah’s Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, stopping briefly at Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park on the way. The scenery is breathtaking (as was […]

Hi Friends, Just returned from our annual Father Son Campout, and have been madly sorting through gigabytes upon gigabytes of images from Bodie Ghost Town, Kramer Junction, Devils Postpile National Monument, and Rainbow Falls. I’ve only finished a few so far (a number of long nights ahead). I’ll also have some infrared images coming soon. […]

Hi Friends, Just returned from a too short trip to Yosemite National Park. I’ve lived in California for 25 years, and been close to it several times, but this is the first time I’ve ever actually gone into the park. Spent the night in a wonderful, quaint, dog-friendly inn just outside the park – about […]

Hi Friends, Been a few weeks since I’ve posted. Had a holiday boutique to prepare for, and a family vacation to the great foggy north…San Francisco: land of the Golden Gate bridge, dungeness crab, and sourdough bread. It’s been almost 18 years since last I visited San Francisco, and the last time I was there, […]

Was in Chicago recently. Having just been to Philadelphia and not taken my own cameras, I vowed that I would not travel to such a “target rich environment” (photographically-speaking) without my own DSLR and at least the 24-70mm f/2.8. As it turned out, I also dragged along the Nikkor 12-24 along, and it served really well. […]